The Shire of Pyrenees is a

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(LGA) in

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, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 7,353. It includes the towns of Avoca,

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, Lexton and

Trawalla Trawalla is a town in central Western Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia, located on the Western Highway, Victoria, Western Highway, west of Ballarat, Victoria, Ballarat and west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Pyrenees. At the , Trawalla a ...

. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the

Shire of Avoca The Shire of Avoca was a local government area about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1861 until 1994. History Avoca was first incorporated as a road district ...

, Shire of Lexton and

Shire of Ripon The Shire of Ripon was a local government area about west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1861 until 1994. History Ripon was incorporated as a road district ...

. The Shire is governed and administered by the Pyrenees Shire Council; its

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and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Beaufort, it also has a service centre located in Avoca. The Shire is named after the major geographical feature in the region, The Pyrenees Ranges which also gives its name to the Pyrenees wine region, which is located in the north of the Local Government Area.

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of five wards and five councillors, with one councillor per ward elected to represent each ward. Council Composition as of September 2022:

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Beaufort Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Beaufort, and its service centre in Avoca.

Traditional owners

The

traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights ...

of this land are the

Wadawurrung The Wathaurong nation, also called the Wathaurung, Wadawurrung and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria. They are part of the Kulin a ...

Dja Dja Wurrung Dja Dja Wurrung (Pronounced Ja-Ja-war-rung), also known as the Djaara or Jajowrong people and Loddon River tribe, are an Aboriginal Australian people who are the Traditional owners of lands including the watersheds of the Loddon and Avoca rive ...

Wotjobaluk The Wotjobaluk are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria. They are closely related to the Wergaia people. Language R. H. Mathews supplied a brief analysis of the Wotjobaluk language (now known as Wergaia), describing what he ...

and

Eastern Maar The Eastern Maar people are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples whose traditional lands are in the south-western part of state of Victoria, Australia. It is a name adopted by a number of Aboriginal Victorian groups who identify as Maar, incl ...

Main towns in shire

In 2021 census the shire had a population of 7,671.

References

External links

Pyrenees Shire Council official websiteMetlink local public transport mapLink to Land Victoria interactive maps
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110203095139/http://www.moonambel-pyrenees.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyrenees, Shire of Local government areas of Victoria (Australia) Grampians (region)